Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.